The Associated Press

The Associated Press is the largest news-gathering organization in the world, disseminating news stories, photographs, graphics, audio and video.

Operating as a not-for-profit cooperative and based in New York City, the AP is owned by 1,500 daily newspaper members in the United States. Its mission is to be a global news network. The AP has more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 bureaus throughout the world. Founded in 1846, the AP considers itself to be the world's most trusted independent news source.

The cooperative, running in a 24-hour news cycle, helps members distribute their stories and other content to other members and also picks up member stories for its use. It distributes content to 121 countries and in four languages. The AP has won 49 Pulitzer Prizes in reporting and story-telling and 30 for photography.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A student from Gainesville's Buchholz High School earned a perfect score on an Advanced Placement microeconomics exam.
The Gainesville Sun reports 19-year-old Kevin Huang graduated from Buchholz last spring and is now a...

Post season accolades continue to stack up for the sophomore UCF defensive back Jacoby Glenn.
The Associated Press named Glenn to the 2014 All-America team. He was a second-team selection along with Florida sophomore cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III....

FSU is the consensus No. 1 team in the country, according to the latest top 25 polls released Sunday after a wild college football weekend that saw a slew of ranked teams lose.
The Seminoles returned to the top spot in the USA Today coaches' poll one...

A photographer and news agency whose picture of State Attorney Angela Corey appears to be the basis for George Zimmerman's latest painting are calling the artwork a clear copyright violation.Jacksonville attorney John Phillips, who represents photographer...

The president of Florida A&M University announced late Thursday that he was postponing the work of a task force he appointed to review anti-hazing rules at FAMU, which is reeling after the hazing-related death of drum major Robert Champion in...

NEW YORK (AP) — With speculation flying, Bruce Jenner's mother opened up Wednesday about his gender journey. Esther Jenner, 88, has been besieged by calls from the media in recent days, but the widow in Lewiston, Idaho, isn't interested in fueling gossip....

PHOENIX (AP) — Criticized for its own handling of head injuries, the NFL launched an extensive lobbying campaign to pass laws protecting kids who get concussions while playing sports. The result: Within just five years, every state had a law on the books....

Jeff Gordon knew midway through last season that he had just one more year in him.
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The government's health insurance website is quietly passing along consumers' personal data to outside websites, just as President Barack Obama is calling for stronger cybersecurity protections.
It works like this: When you apply for coverage on...

A prosecutor says the shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a female police officer and four hostages at a kosher grocery. In a brief statement Sunday, the...

He ran the first chance he got.
The summer sun beat down on the shallow, sea-fed fields where Kim Seong-baek was forced to work without pay, day after 18-hour day mining the big salt crystals that blossomed in the mud around him. Half-blind and in...

After a week that included an upset win over Florida and winning the championship of the Charleston Classic, the Hurricanes basketball team is now ranked among the nation’s best.
Miami will enter Tuesday night’s game against Charlotte with an unblemished...

A few days from now, eyes will be fixed on the first top-25 list released by the College Football Playoff selection committee.
Those rankings, due for release Tuesday, will be the only ones that matter. So we thought this might be a good time to pay...

Notre Dame sits at No. 5 in both the coaches' and Associated Press polls Sunday after its 50-43 win over North Carolina while Florida State, the Irish's opponent Saturday, dropped from No. 1 to No. 2. Notre Dame held steady in the coaches poll...

The only thing more stunning than an incredible weekend of games, perhaps, was the stunning overreaction to them.
We warned you that wild times were coming and that the polls were about to get poached and scrambled.
It happened, just as predicted, yet...

In a development that could have a devastating effect on NFL management, the Associated Press is reporting the league was provided a copy of the Ray Rice elevator tape in April -- even though NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has insisted no one at the NFL...

Two Americans detained in North Korea expect to be tried soon, they told the Associated Press on Friday, and are pleading with the U.S. government to obtain their release.
Jeffrey Fowle and Matthew Miller, who were detained three months ago, told an AP...

The day started with a possible answer to one of the digital era's greatest mysteries: Who created the bitcoin virtual currency that has become a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon?
From there, with the unlikely revelation by Newsweek magazine that it...

When the Ravens made Ray Lewis their second-ever draft pick, they knew they were getting a highly productive player from the talent-rich University of Miami. What they could not have known is that Lewis would become arguably the greatest middle linebacker...

Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles street artist, has received a sentence of two years' probation and a $25,000 fine in his criminal contempt case involving his "Hope" poster of Barack Obama. The sentence was handed down Friday morning in a New...